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...private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
...past- in the old Broadway musical comedy, where a sketch like his famed Woodchopper routine goes down as a classic through the years. Back at his old pitch, with a solid hit on his hands, Lahr has proved that there is still a place on Broadway for his vanishing breed...
...limitless panorama of America." They also invoke the high codes and courage Faulkner associates with the Old South, in this case the founders of Jefferson, Miss, in mythical Yoknapatawpha County, seat of Faulkner's fictional kingdom. The Temple Drakes, the Gowan Stevenses and their slack-spined, country-clubbing breed have corrupted these codes, he implies. The only atonement is suffering. In the South, the Negro knows most about suffering. Perhaps, Faulkner seems to be saying, the Negro will yet help the South find redemption...
Forth from the Paris conference flew Picasso's dove, to breed wondrously. The dove was plastered on posters, stamped on ash trays and handkerchiefs, brooches and earrings. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia put it on postage stamps. It was stamped on tickets to rallies in France and on banners to fly over the rallies; in Belgium, they made it out of spaghetti and macaroni for sale to peace-lovers. On U.S. automobiles in France, little dove stickers appeared, with the words "American, go home. We want peace...
...private schools breed snobs? The council wriggles mightily but very nearly gets pinned on that one. "The danger of economic exclusiveness is certainly persistent . . . The danger of social exclusiveness remains, and indifferent students are sometimes offered opportunities they waste while other boys and girls who have every qualification except cash are denied the opportunity they deserve . . . but Americans have not agreed that because not all can have opportunity, none shall...